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The Official Bulletin 


March, 1916 


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Young Men’s Christian Association 
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Locations at Which the Work of the — a ae 
Association is Conducted 
GENERAL OFFICES: 16th Floor, 19 So. La Salle Street. |] 
GENERAL DEPARTMENTS: ks Sc aet an 
Central: 19 So. La Salle Street. , aes 
Division Street: Corner Division Street and Marshfield 
Avenue. Me Reena nha mw gy Nic ice ae kr 
West Side: 1513 West Monroe Street. si 
Wilson Avenue: Corner Hermitage and Wilson Aves. 
Sears-Roebuck: Corner Kedzie Avenue and Arthington 
Street. a ah 
Wabash Avenue: Corner Wabash Avenue and 38th 


Street. ; 
’ Hyde Park: Corner 53d Street and Dorchester Avenue. fhe 









RAILROAD DEPARTMENTS: oy | 


Pennsylvania Lines: (59th Street) 59th and Leavitt Sts. 
Dearborn Station: Corner So. State and Taylor Sts. 
Chicago & North-western: 367 North Karlov ‘Avenue. 
Grand Trunk: Corner 5ist Street and St. Louis Avenue. _ 
Chicago & Eastern Illinois: South Holland, I ~ 
Chicago & Alton: Glenn Yards. 


COMMUNITY DEPARTMENTS: ~ 
North Avenue: 602 North Avenue. 
Belmont Avenue: 930 Belmont Avenue. 
South Chicago: 9113 Commercial Avenue. 
Austin: 506 North Parkside. Avenue, | 


STUDENT DEPARTMENTS: 


Armour Institute of Technology: $324 Armour Avenue, 
Chicago College of Dental Surgery: Corner ‘Wood ‘and 
Harrison Streets, pate, hehe 
Balveuaty of Illinois Professional Schools: 508 Honore 
treet. : naa 
Hahnemann Medical College: 2811 Cottage Grove Ave.» 
Northwestern Professional Schools: Corner Lake and Dear- 
born Streets, _ 
The University of Chicago: Midway Plaisance. ee 
Rush Medical College: Corner Wood and Harrison Streets. 
McCormick Theological Seminary: 2320 N. Halsted St. - 
Chicago Theological Seminary: 20.N. Ashland Avenue. ° 
Chicago College of Osteopathy: 1422 W. Monroe Street. 


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Secretaries Supported by Chicago. 
























F. H. Brown, Japan ~ W.-M. Hume, India’ See thy hub 
P. A. Conrad, Uruguay _E.-H. Lockwood, China’ My 
E. C, Carter, India J. L. McPherson, Hongkong — Py i 
G. M. Day, Special ; R. L. Creighton, China > =, pe ie 

j . M. Elliott, Amoy, China C. H. McCloy, China 


. J. McConnell, India Don C. Shumaker, India 
Eee Ors AG Wale, Edin. 69 carat a 








The Official Bulletin 


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WILLIAM P. SIDLEY, President | 
JAMES R. CHAPMAN, Treasurer 
L. WILBUR MESSER, General Secretary 
W. P. ENGLAND, Managing Editor 

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The Foreign Work Commission of The Young Men’s Christian Asso- 
ciation of Chicago: 


P. L. Storm. W. S. Agar. Robert Quayle. 
C. M. Whipple. E. M. Bowman, Lew H. Webb. 
Chairman. 


Absent from this group: C. F. Congleton. 








EDITORIAL 


AMERICA’S SUPREME OPPORTUNITY 


volume of Sherwood Eddy, “The New Era in Asia.” This 

volume presents an analysis of the political, educational, 

economic, social and religious changes and conditions in Japan, 
China, Korea, Turkey and the Balkan states. Mr. Eddy shows most con- 
clusively that these nations of the far and near Orient are facing the 
supreme crisis in their history, and that the greatest probiem of each is the 
problem of moral character, as stated by a leading Japanese, who says: 
“We have accepted a great machine of western civilization, but we have 
not the moral oil to run it.” 

It is evident that the old religions and the civilizations which they 
have created and developed through many centuries are rapidly breaking 
down. It is also clear that these nations are fast accepting the best ideals 
and methods of western economical, educational, social and political life. 
Hinduism, Buddhism and Mohammedanism have failed in their fruitage 
of moral character, political and economic efficiency, or to satisfy the 
spiritual and eternal longings of the human heart. 

Benjamin Kidd shows in his writings that western civilization at its 
best has been only the life history of Christianity. Mr. Eddy in his 
volume statts that the Renaissance of Europe during the fifteenth century 
resulted in a five-fold transformation of life—political, intellectual, 
economical, social and religious, and that the greatest Renaissance of the 
twentieth century in Asia furnishes a striking parallel in each of these 
phases of human life. The continent. of North America has produced not 
a perfect but a high type of Christian civilization. 

To America more than to any other country the nations of the 
East look for a positive faith and power which will meet the need of 
the world. And this Macedonian call is to the individual as well as to 
the nation. Men, money,’ methods and high national ideals are needed. 
And every man may respond, each in his own sphere, and say, “Here am 
I, Lord; send me.” More men must go to the front as ministers, teach- 
ers, physicians, Association officers and Christian business men. Others 
must remain at home to so live the Christian life as to correct the 
political, social, moral and economic evils of our own Christian nation. 
And every one, however small may be his station in life, or limited his 
income, may and must live the sacrificial life, by systematically con- 
tributing a larger share of his resources for the spread of the gospel to 
the uttermost parts of the earth. The supreme need of all the world is a 
satisfying knowledge of the power of God in overcoming personal and 
national sin. 

The responsibility for meeting this need is upon every person who 
seeks to know and do the will of God. The men of our Chicago Asso- 
ciation may accept this challenge for world service in a definite and 
immediate way by cultivating a virile Christian life; by becoming members 
of the foreign section of the Association, and by connecting themselves 
with the missionary interests of their respective churches. 

(Reprinted by request) 


\ K J E COMMEND to all thoughtful men for careful study the recent 


L. WiLsur MESssEr. 





CURRENT NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS 


HE report of the past year in all 
iE foreign associations shows 177 
foreign secretaries and 249 na- 
tive paid secretaries. The greatest 
and most significant development is 


in the fact that the native secretaries 
increased from 181 to 249. 


Ten Bible classes in the Tokyo As- 
sociation enrolled 150 men. From 
these classes many men have been 
baptized and have joined churches. 
Out of 100 inquirers through special 
evangelistic services 30 have joined 
churches. The employment depart- 
ment placed 800 men in positions. The 
Imperial Home Department of gov- 
ernment continues its grant of asso- 
ciation support. Two hundred men 
have used the building daily, not in- 
cluding 127,000 persons using the audi- 
torium. 


The Educational Department of the 
Filipino City Association at Manila 
opened the year with an enrollment 
of 61 and closed the year with 488. 
One class of 30 men has been estab- 
lished in the office of the leading ship- 
ping firm of the city. The shipping 
firm gave free rent and light. 


The Foochow Association conduct- 
ed a membership campaign recently 
in which 1,300 members were secured. 
The governor captained a team and 
has promised to be the chief speaker 
at the dedication of the new building. 
In this city 51 men joined churches 
during a period of two weeks. In 
a single day 28 men were baptized 
in one church. 


A government official in Pekin after 
hearing an address in the association 
on “China’s Need of the Bible” bought 
2,000 Bibles at $1 each and presented 
them to his official friends. 


In Yenping, Fukien, the governor, 
his main attendant, the mayor and 
superintendent of prison, together 
with two bankers, eleven government 
school teachers and three Buddhist 
priests, were among the men regis- 
tered for Bible classes. 


The Osaka, Japan, Association has 
1,686 men in educational classes. This 
ranks with the educational department 
at West Side, New York, Boston and 
Los Angeles. It is a fixed’ principle 
in this association that every new edu- 
cational class means a new Bible class 
organized. 


The Seoul Association has 16 Bible 
classes a week, enrolling 750 men. 
Two hundred and seventy-two of the 
men made definite decisions to enter 
the Christian life. 


In Seoul the government -of the 
Railway Bureau has increased its con- 
tribution from $2,500 to $4,500 a year 
and has given almost complete con- 
trol of the Railway Association to 
M. Niwa, Japanese secretary. The 
weekly attendance at Bible classes has 
reached 1,128. 


The new building in Havana is now 
complete. Remarkable value has been 
secured in the $130,000 spent in the 
building and site. In the list of givers 
are found the president and _ vice- 
president of the Republic, five of the 
eight cabinet officers, the speaker of 
the House, the president of the Senate 
and nine other senators, the national 
chief of police and prominent business 
men, bankers, lawyers, doctors and 
professors. 


General Li Yuan Hung, vice-presi- 
dent of China, said recently: Mission- 
aries are our friends. I am strongly in 


CURRENT NEWS 
favor of more missionaries coming to 
China to teach Christianity. We shall 
do all we can to assist them. The 
more missionaries who come to China 
the greater will the Republican Gov- 
ernment be pleased. China would not 
be aroused today as it is were it not 
for the missionaries who ven- 
tured within the out-of-way parts of 
the Empire and opened up the coun- 
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have 


The Manila membership campaign 
aimed to secure 425 new members, but 
secured 1,300; 23 men united with the 
Union Church on a recent Sunday, 11 
of them from Association Bible 


OF FOREIGN 


LANDS 


on 


were helped by the Employment De- 
partment. 
The year’s survey shows 
Associations in India and Ceylon, 
12,000 members, 190 secretaries, in- 
cluding 95 Indian secretaries, 41 from 
America. More progress has been 
made in securing Indian secretaries 
during the past ten months than in the 
previous five years. The Associations 
own 31 buildings and are at work 1 
24 others. The annual budget has in- 
from $20,000 to $53,000. At- 


nearly 200 


creased 


tendance of over 80,000. at Bible 
classes and 70,000 at religious meet- 
ings. 





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Graduating Exercises of the Tientsin Association Day School. 


classes. Ninety per cent of the first 
educational class students entered vol- 
untary Bible classes. One 
ment bureau sent 45 employes for 
special, corrective physical work. 


govern- 


thee sinste Boys Department in 
South America is now fully organized 
in Buenos Aires. A night university 
of free lectures is very popular and 
helpful. Six hundred and forty stu- 
dents from the university attended the 
special reception; meals in the res- 
taurant were served to 70,000 men 
during the year and nearly 1,000 men 


The president of the Technical Col- 
lege in Hangchow, in opening the col- 
lege to the Association Bible classes, 
said to his. students: may 
wonder why I opened this institute 
for Bible classes I realize 
your need of moral help and my in- 
ability to give it to you, 
I believe these Christian men teaching 
the Bible can give you the help you 


“Some 


because 





and because 


need.” Sixty men in the Provincial 
Normal College, including every 
member of the senior class, were en- 


classes and 15 
of the 


in Bible study 
and 160 members 


rolled 
of them 


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Association Bible classes have decided 
for the Christian life. 


S. T. Wen, Commissioner of For- 


eign Affairs in Hangchow, China, 
said: “I have decided to become a 
Christian because I wish to be like 


Christian men whom I have observed 
—a man of pure heart, strong blood, 
true patriotism and perfect zeal. My 
first impulse of Christianity was in a 
Bible class in the ‘Tientsin Union 
Church. My next impulse grew out 


of my close relationship with Barnett, 
the Association Secretary, as a result 
of which I came to realize the claims 
of Christ on my own life and became 








now a teacher in a Government school 
in Hainan, has led to the Christian 
life two of his fellow professors and 
six of the students. 

In no year in the history of the 
Young Men’s Christian Association in 
China have the results of religious 
work been so large. The evangelistic 
addresses given by Dr. Mott and Mr. 
Eddy at the opening of 1913 have con- 
tinued to yield fruitage, until at the 
time of the last report 1,059 members 
had been added to the church. This 
is exclusive of the more than 800 
added to the churches thru the work 
of the student Associations. Bible 





The Association Building in Manila for American and European Young Men. 


at heart a believer. I have been much 
influenced by the Young Men’s Chris- 
tian Association. To me it is the em- 
bodiment of that which is simple, 
happy and progressive in religion. 
The conception of Christianity it re- 
veals prepared me to become a Chris- 
tian and a church member.” 


A series of monthly lectures in the 
churches of Canton on public health 
and home training has been attended 
by nearly 13,000 people; 184 members 
of the Bible classes have joined the 


church. One of these new Christians, 


study and social service have multi- 
plied. 


Twelve of the fourteen officers of 
the Hangchow Bar Association, in- 
cluding the president and vice-presi- 
dent, are members of the Association. 
Ninety sustaining members include 
the following: Military Governor, 
Civil Governor, Chief Justice of Su- 


preme Court, Commissioner of In- 
terior, Commissioner of Finance, 
Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, 


Mayor, Brigadier General, and three 
Regimental Generals. 


CHICAGO’S FOREIGN WORK PROGRAM 


N THE annual report of The Young Men’s Christian Association of Chicago 
| published recently there are some significant facts given as showing the 

growth of the local association during the past five years. In most of the 
figures given there is shown a gain of from 100 to 200 percent, but remarkable 
as is this showing, the growth in the interest and support of the association 
work in foreign fields is even more striking. 

Five years ago $4,000, contributed for the support of two secretaries in 
Hongkong and a few scattering gifts for the work in other foreign stations, 
represented the entire foreign work budget of the Chicago Association. Last 
year the total gifts from the association and its constituency for foreign work 
and the army work in Europe reached the sum of $74,611.50. Add to this 
amount $15,200 contributed for buildings in foreign cities and we have a grand 
total of $89,811.50, an amount considerably larger than that subscribed for the 
local work. This sum provides the entire support of thirteen secretaries and 
the partial support of four others. 

lf we inquire into the reasons for this remarkable showing we shall find 
that there are a number of determining factors. Perhaps the most important 
may be the tour which General Secretary Messer made of practically all the 
leading cities in the foreign field two years ago. After his return Mr. Messer 
said: “It is a solemn thing to travel around the world, for the cry for help 
spiritual, physical, intellectual, and social is constantly ringing in one’s ears.” 
It was this “cry” which sent Mr. Messer forth into all sections of Chicago as 
the strongest advocate of a larger foreign work program. 

Soon after his return there was held a Foreign Work Conference in Chi- 
cago, attended by representatives of the leading associations in the Middle 
West, and as a result of its deliberations the following resolutions were passed, 
calling for a significant advance in the association’s support of foreign work: 

(1) “We recognize and hereby declare that the obligation for the promo- 
tion of the associations’ foreign work rests primarily upon the local associations 
of North America, and we, therefore, recommend that each local association 
be urged to adopt annually, through its Board of Directors, an adequate foreign 
work program. 

(2) We recommend that the foreign work program of a local association 
should include: (1) a standing Foreign Work Committee; (2) a Foreign Work 
Club, composed of contributors with a leading Christian layman as chairman; 
(3) a member of the employed staff, giving special attention to the foreign 
work program; (4) an adequate educational program; (5) a program for pro- 
moting intercession; (6) a definite financial objective which shall be pledged, 
if possible, before June 1 and be forwarded to the International Committee as 
early in the year as may be feasible, preferably in monthly or quarterly pay- 
ments. 

(3) In order to insure immediate action by the associations we further 
recommend: (1) that the delegates here present at once make an earnest effort 
towards securing the adoption of this program for foreign work by the associa- 
tion which they represent; (2) that the various state organizations adopt 
and promote a state-wide foreign work program which shall make available 
to all associations the vision, method and motive for participation in the for- 
eign work; (3) that local associations avail themselves of the experience and 


8 THE OFFICIAL -BULLETIN 





Hy Ga Carter. Howard A. Walter. R. L. Creighton, 


leadership of the International and State committees through co-operative 
endeavor in educating and securing an adequate financial constituency.” 

The Chicago Association has endeavored to live in the spirit of these reso- 
lutions. Frequent meetings have been arranged where returned secretaries 
have told their stories of the great advance in the foreign field. These appeals 
from men who have been on the “firing line” have brought immediate responses 
in the way of co-operation and additional gifts. 


Other methods of arousing interest in the foreign work are the circula- 
tion of reports and letters from secretaries in the foreign field, including 
“Foreign Mail;” foreign work exhibits in the lobbies of the various buildings 
of the Chicago Association; foreign work study groups; groups of laymen 
trained to carry the responsibility of the work to others; definite financial 
campaigns conducted early each year, when most of the subscriptions for this 
work are pledged. This year the campaign will be held March 19th to 25th. 


Another strong factor in the development of foreign work in Chicago is a 
city-wide commission to promote and co-ordinate the foreign work program 
for the association as a whole. In each department of the association there 
are also foreign work committees with active chairmen and executive secre- 
taries, and in some departments there are Twenty-four-Hour-a-Day clubs and 
other organizations which keep the foreign work message constantly before 
the membership. 


This year Central Department, West Side and The University of Chicagaq 
Departments are each undertaking to provide the support of a secretary in 
foreign fields. As stated elsewhere, Central has chosen J. L. McPherson of 
Hongkong; West Side has selected the city of Montevideo. The secretary to 
is be announced later, and The University of Chicago Department has chosen 
Galen M. Fisher, National secretary of Japan, as its representative. Other de- 
partments will elect representatives later on. 

During the Foreign Work Week last year 85 different group meetings 
were held, with an aggregate attendance of 3,000 men. 


The Following Foreign Secretaries Are Supported by Chicago 
E. ©. Carter, National General Secretary of the associations in India. Mr. 


CHICAGO’S FOREIGN WORK PROGRAM 9 





W. M. Hume. George M. Day. Don C. Shumaker. 


Carter was formerly secretary of the work among the colleges of North 
America. He has led the work in India with the highest degree of statesman- 
ship, with a staff of 47 American and European secretaries and a larger staff 
of trained Indian secretaries. 

Howard A. Walter, Literary Secretary of the National Committee of 
India. Mr. Walter has a rare gift as a writer of religious literature and in 
this capacity is meeting a very great need in the student life of India. 

J. J. McConnell, General Secretary of Lahore, India. Mr. McConnell has 
just returned from the War Zone. 


R. L. Creighton, one of the Building Experts for the National Committee 
of China. Mr. Creighton is not only a trained contractor of association build- 
ings, but is an association man and in addition to insuring the association of 
first-class equipment for the association in China is making a large contribu- 
tion to the work as an association leader. 

T. M. Elliott, General Secretary of the association at Amoy, China. Mr. 
Elliott was one of the founders of the work in Hongkong and was transferred 
to take charge of the work in Amoy, another of the great port cities. 

W. M. Hume, Educational Secretary of the association at Lahore, India. 
Mr. Hume is carrying on a very successful work in Lahore with government 
support, where the possibility for expanding the work is great. 

E. H. Lockwood, of Canton, China, studying the language; temporarily 
located in that greatest city of South China. Mr. Lockwood has had success- 
ful secretarial experience in the Pittsburgh Association and in Leland Stanford 
University. 

J. L. McPherson, General Secretary at Hongkong, China. This greatest 
English port in the East is a city of large influence in China, and Mr. Mc- 
Pherson’s leadership through the years has been outstanding. 

George M. Day, a representative of the North American associations in 
the Near East. 

Don C. Shumaker, General Secretary of the association in Karachi, India, 
the great rival of Bombay on the west coast. 

C. H, McCloy, Physical Director for the National Committee of China. 
Mr. McCloy is traveling through the leading cities of China, developing the 


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C. H. McCloy. F. H. Brown. T. M. Elliott. 


interest in physical education and helping the leaders of education plan their 
physical program and train the men to carry it out. 

F. H. Brown, National Physical Director for Japan. Mr. Brown is the 
only American trained physical director in the association movement in Japan 
and is having a growing influence in leading the physical life of this very 
athletic nation. 

P. A. Conard, General Secretary for Montevideo, with continental respon- 
sibilities, especially in connection with student conferences and the production 
of association literature. 

Men Toward Whose Support Chicago Makes Substantial Contributions 

C. H. Robertson, one of the National Secretaries of China, leader in the 
Lecture Department. 

A. M. Guttery, General Secretary of the association in Hankow, popularly 
known as the Chicago of China. 

W. W. Lockwood, General Secretary of the association at Shanghai, one 
of the most fruitful associations in Asia, if not in the world. 

Galen M. Fisher, National General Secretary of the associations in Japan. 
Mr. Fisher has been the only general secretary of the movement in Japan, 
and much of the solid and splendid work done there is due to his wise 
leadership. 





C, H. Robertson. W. W. Lockwood. P. A. Conard 


WHY SUPPORT THE FOREIGN WORK OF THE 
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ? 


From Walter A. Rogers, President Bates & Rogers Construction Company 


because it seems to me the greatest power operating in the Orient today for 

evangelizing men. The work of the Young Men’s Christian Association in 
the Far East is handled in such a way as to command the respect of the people 
with whom it is working. The men in the field have gained the confidence not 
only of the ordinary citizen of the country, but of the educated ruling classes. 
China, Japan and India are in a state of change. They are breaking away 
from the old religions, and the Y. M. C. A. is one of the great forces leading 
these people to the Christian religion. The Young Men’s Christian Association 
being inter-denominational is not subiect to the questions which arise in the 
minds of those of other religions as to why the Christian religion is divided 


BELIEVE in the foreign work of the Young Men’s Christian Association 


into sO many sects. 





The Canton Boys’ Department in Athletic Carnival. 


Another reason why I believe in the Young Men’s Christian Association 
work in the foreign field is that this association is teaching the people among 
whom it works to support their own associations and their own work with their 
efforts as well as with their money. I am in correspondence with several sec- 
retaries in China. I notice in the roster of officers that practically all of the 
officers of the associations are*Chinese, with one or two American employed 
officers. 

To sum up my answer to the question as to why support the foreign 
work of the Young Men’s Christian Association my answer is, that I know 
of no place where a dollar spent towards the evangelization of the world will 
be put to better use than if spent in the foreign work of the Young Men’s 
Christian Association. 


12 THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN 


From W. A. Douglass, Manager R. G. Dun & Co. 


I. Because of the Urgent Need. 
Il. The Wonderful Opportunity. 
III. The Untold Results. 


I. Because of the Urgent Need 


What is it that makes the strongest appeal to the Christian man for 
his service and his means? Is it not the crying need of those who are unfor- 
tunate in life and who need opportunity? After the prudent man has recog- 
nized this need he endeavors to determine the agency through which the largest 
number of needy people may be reached. From my knowledge of the work 
of the Young Men’s Christian Association in foreign lands I feel that this 
organization has studied the conditions and adapted its methods so that it 
is able to bring the Christian message to the largest number who are in need. 
To quote from Mr. Eddy’s book, “The Students of Asia,” “Japan at present 
may be likened to a sea into which a hundred currents of oriental and occi- 
dental thought have poured and not yet having effected affusion are raging 
wildly, tossing, warring, roaring.’ Would not this indicate that they need 
the Christian message? 


II. The Wonderful Opportuinty 


If we are properly informed we are bound to admit that there was never 
a time when the door of opportunity was wider—the call more urgent or the 
welcome more hearty in the foreign field. In our own country we see the 
results of Christian influences exerted by our leading men, but the customs 
of the people in the Orient cause them in greater degree to be influenced by 
their superiors. It is a noteworthy fact that the high officials in government, 
and the leaders in college and university life are accepting and encouraging 
others to accept the Christian religion. When did we have a greater oppor- 
tunity to influence the future leaders of the eastern nations? 


III. The Untold Results 


We have never known such results as are being attained, especially 
among the students in Asia. This work would be impossible were it not for 
the foundation which the Christian missionaries have been laying for a hun- 
dred years. Having this foundation securely laid, the Young Men’s Christian 
Association secretaries by their tact and perseverance have been able to enlist 
the support of all Christian bodies. The results which we are witnessing in 
these lands are little short of marvelous. Shall we not feel that it is worth 
while and that we are blessed of God in that we are privileged to invest in 
and have a share in this, our Lord’s work? The workers are ready—the in- 
quirers are many, but there is lack of funds. The question is not, “Why dc 
I support this work?” but rather, “How can I afford not to support it?” 


. 


From Fred A. Grow, Vice-President J. C. Whitney Co. 


Chairman, Twenty-four-Hour-a-Day Club Central Department 
During the past dozen years or so, my business has taken me to the 
primary tea markets of the world. 
In one of the smaller interior cities of. Japan, I found a Young Men’s 
Christian Association, organized and managed by Japanese. 


WHY SUPPORT FOREIGN WORK 13 


The leader in this Y. M. C. A. wrote me in his Japanese English styie “I 
am teaching the gospels of John as a side works.” 

On a return voyage across the Pacific I greatly enjoyed the companion- 
ship of a high class, educated Chinese official, enroute to a London conference 
on the opium question. 

It developed that he was the president of the Young Men’s Christian As- 
sociation in one of the important cities of China. 

Space will not permit further examples, but these are typical of the spir- 
itual uplift that is spreading over the earth. 

These are messages from the trenches, in what Mr. Eddy calls “A con- 
structive war.” 

But behind the guns and the trenches and the soldiers are great generals, 
as there must be in every war. 








New Building of the Young Men’s Christian Association in Kobe, Japan. 


Would that you could meet them, hear them, and see them in action,— 
Mott, Brockman, Eddy, Clinton, Robertson,. Gailey, Hibbard, and so on 
through a long list. They are college trained, consecrated, Christian states- 
men. 

We cannot go, but better men than we 
nations, are already on the field as our ambassadors. 

God forbid that we should narrow their plans just now while the nations 
of the east and of the whole world are in the melting pot, and their greatest 
need is that they may be cooled by a breath from Heaven, 





men who can mould and uplift 


WHY THEY PREPARE FOR ASSOCIATION WORK 
From Students of the Y. M. C. A. College 


HY am I preparing for Association work? While 
\W on the surface it seems easy to answer such a 
question, one finds difficulty to put in black and 
white his reason or reasons. I wish I could yield this pen 
to express my reasons in terms that would at all be ade- 
quate to match the strength of the feelings within my heart 
for entering Association work. Unfortunately, the trend 
of modern thought seems to lie in the line of facts and 
figures rather than in feelings, and I suppose one must 
follow the former course if one is to run with the current! 
Is there a need for the Young Men’s Christian Associa- 
tion in America? Is there a need for Leadership here? Is 
agit: there a need for Trained Secretaries? I suppose the answer 
Runganadhan _ in every case would be “Sure.” If that is so, the need of the 
above in India is much more imperative—the need of unity 
among the millions of young men, scattered and separated by barriers of caste 
and creeds; the need of the thousands, wavering both in mind and body, for sym- 
pathy and help; the need of sympathetic advice and guidance of these young men 
who are to be the leaders and the moulders of the destiny of the coming India; 
into those channels which would help provide them with a foundation strong, firm’ 
and true; the need of these thousands for a wholesome atmosphere amidst vice, 
superstition and idolatory; the need of these thousands who are spiritually athirst 
for a true Saviour, and therefore, the need of Christ, the only hope of India. Yes, 
it is the need that is evident everywhere in India. One is but modest when he 
says after years of experience, that there have been few Christian organizations 
which have been so successful as the Young Men’s Christian Association in India 
in being able to offer solution for some of the grave problems that are facing the 
youth of India today. Dare one, whose passion it is to work among young men, 
ask for a better place for the investment of his life? 

The need of India, the opportunities for service in the Young Men’s Christian 
Association, the prayers, the hopes and the backing of a dear American friend, 
and the call of my.Master, are the reasons for my being in the Young Men’s Chris- 
tian Association, 








Pau. D. RUNGANADHAN, 
Bangalore, India. 


At the age of six years my father sent me to a denominational school (Wm. 
Nost College), Kinkiang, China, where I received my early education. From that 
time on, I learned to become a real Christian and enjoyed different religious meet- 
ings, such meetings as are conducted by the College Y. M. C. A. Gradually I took 
an active part in this movement and held different offices in the Association during 
my college days in China. : 

One thing which influenced me to take an interest and be a worker in the 
Association for China was the Summer Conference held in my college town Kin- 
kiang, China, 1912. (Mr. Brockman was the leader), and I had the privilege of 
presiding at most of the meetings and there I found the most concern was about 


WHY PREPARE FOR ASSOCIATION WORK 15 


our physical work and the lack of trained physical directors. Therefore from that 
time on | determined to devote my life to this work, and | expect to return as a 
leader of physical work in the Chinese Young Men’s Christian Association. 

Physical education was introduced as early as the Chinese dynasty 725 A. D., 
then it gradually disappeared until now again the people have become interested. 

A few score years ago, physical education was entirely unknown to my people, 
though we had some enthusiasts for the cause, but they were not desirable. I de- 
cided to go to school to train myself in order that I might teach my own people. 
Not alone in physical education, but the religious work as well. 

Let me express my present attitude toward the development of the Association 
in China. 

What we Christian men need most is an awaking to the true meaning of Chris- 
tian fellowship and love of God. I congratulate my people that many of them, 
are brought up in Christian families, and that the gospel story is not a novelty to: 


them. But for this reason there lies great danger among our people—the danger 
of swallowing the gospel, whole, instead of digesting and assimilating it. We for- 








A Group of Gymnasium Leaders in the Shanghai Association. 


get or fail to realize that only as we live like Christ can we manifest to others our 
love of God. To be a Christian is to endeavor to love all people as our Lord 
did. 

[ feel that nothing better than a direct and personal contact with some real 
Christian will do it. If they could only have the opportunity to come into natural 
contact with some truly Christian families where the love of God reigns supreme, 
they would most surely see the beauty of the Christian life. 

Christ—Incarnate—life is the greatest power for winning men for Christ and 
it is the most important thing China needs today. This is what I feel our Associa- 
not more members, but more of. the actual 





tion needs today—not more money 


living out of Christ’s love. 
Frep M. Cuu, 


Kinkiang, China. 


16 THE: OFFICIAL BULLETIN 


One of the great problems of Argentine today is the young men, because 
from them are coming in the next generation, the rulers of the nation, and 
from them is the vision of hope for the present social reformation, but what 
will be the expected reformation of tomorrow if we do not help to raise those 
which are ready to fall into degradation. 

At early ages the young men find the doors open 
toward the path that looks like roses, which carries 
them to the thorn. When they are among the thorns 
they stay because nobody goes to them and fills their 
minds and hearts with high ideas. The young men 
do not have many chances to find the way to physical 
education, spiritual development or toward good, moral, 
instructive literature, but with many chances to find 
gambling, horse races and other places to satisfy the 
desires of the flesh that has been growing from boy- 
hood. The sensual passion is our great weakness be- 
cause no one, father, mother or teacher, shows or tries 
to show the right way, the right manhood, and this 

Josi Amatuzzo negligence cause the debility of spirit and the funda- 
mental thing, lack of character. 

A great opportunity for this service lies before the Young Men’s Christian 
Association more than other institutions, because it ministers to his spiritual, 
his mental and physical needs and, most important, it does not teach creeds 
or dogmas, but Christianity in the real sense of the word that is in every day 
life, practice in the action and not the exhibition. The young men of South 
America are ready to accept this message; they look for it and they know 
how to appreciate practical Christianity. 

The picture of degradation and the picture of the Bieta brought me here 
to fit myself through training in character and spiritual power to go back to 
contribute, even though in a small way, to the realization of this great serv- 
ice for the sake of my God and my country. Jost AMATUZZO. 

Buenos Aires, Argentina. 




















For months I went about my work as physical director of Seoul Y. M. C. 
A. with my whole heart set upon the determination to come to America to 
learn more about physical training than the few instructions I was giving 
to my class. I myself was a graduate of the Y. M. C. A. school, and I was for- 
tunately or unfortunately, it remains to be proved, later made the physical di- 
rector of the association. I did not have the necessary qualifications to fill the 
position to higher degree, but I gave my whole self to the work and for the 
interest of my department and the association. I was in charge of the work 
nearly three years, from 1911-1913, until the day before my departure for 
America. With the loyal co-operation of all leaders of the association, the 
physical department progressed surprisingly well and was very successful in 
all branches of sport. 

The determination to come to America became stronger and more deter- 
mined every day as I took the advanced class, for they were in want of higher 
instruction, of which I knew no more. Here I was driven to bay and I had 
to jump in to swim or sink once for all. Any man in my predicament would 
have the same desire and determination to go to the end of the earth if nec- 
essary, to.attain the highest knowledge of his chosen work under all circum- 


WHY PREPARE FOR ASSOCIATION WORK 17 


stances and by all efforts. With that decision in my mind I worked from right 
and left for ways and means which would enable me to cross the Pacific ocean 
some day. 

There was a day of joy and happiness in store for me in Chicago, the day 
of my entry into the Y. M. C. A. college of physical training as a full fledged 
student. I must say right here and now that I owe much to Dr. H. F. Kallen- 
berg, Dr. F. H. Burt, the president of the college, and I. E. Brown, who have 
such kindly interest in me, and saw to it that I was firmly established to receive 
my desired education. When I have learned all the college offers me and all 
other details of association work, I shall be happy to return. to Seoul Y. M. 
C. A. to devote all of my time to the work and to help to make it as great 
an association as those I have seen in America. Y. M. C. A. work was just 
sown in the heart of Korea and the harvest will be a thousand fold for any 
willing worker. I ask all those who are interested in association foreign fields 
to come to Korea, for they will render a great service to the association and 
the people and the success thus attained will be a glorious one. 

Before the conclusion of this article | would like to impart to my brother 
workers of the Y. M. C. A. of America what the association of Korea has done 
and is doing for the Koreans under the joint leadership of Messrs. F. M. 
Brockman and G. A. Gregg. When Y. M. C. A. work was first introduced 
into Korea by P. L. Gillette, beloved by all, he brought with it a most glorious 
era into Christian life. The Y..M. C. A. method of preaching the gospel and 
training the young men according to their chosen work was fittingly accept- 
able to both old and young people. They at once saw in the association an 
altogether different method of bringing the people into Christian life than 
they have been accustomed to see in the conservative way of missionaries. 
Even the former imperial family were enthusiastic and made a substantial do- 
nation for the welfare of the association. 

I always have been thankful to John Wanamaker for the gift of the first 
magnificent association building to Korea, and I take the present opportunity 
to thank Mr. Messer, to express my gratefulness and that of my countrymen, 
for his visit to my country. SunGc Herr. Seoul, Korea. 





Certainly the great messages of Christianity and social justice of America 

would be well received in South America. The messages of a loving and ten- 
der father, through a new Hosea would be in a proper 
| place in the new Israel. 

The lack of care or the lack of teachings on sexual 
questions and the negligence about some confidential 
talks of a father to his boy or a professor to his pupil 
leave the young fellow standing before an angle of two 
roads. The more attractive road is taken. Women, 
too, enter the great drama of life. Gambling as an en- 
tertainment at an early age occupies the mind of the 
young pilgrim along the path of vice to misery. 

With plenty of immoral and obsence literature the 
lad goes to “manhood.” Not even God exists, they say, 
but their souls are longing for something higher than 
material things. 

Francisco M. Albizu ‘Il left Brazil some time ago, coming to this country 














18 THE OFFICIAL; BULLEIAN 


to get the training and education needed and then to return to my home and 
work for the advancement of my people, trying to give them that old, but al- 
ways new, message of the prophet Hosea, the love and tender care of our 
Father. 

The Young Men’s Christian Association is the best agency to get under 
its roof the youth of South America, and socially, physically and spiritually 
give a new idea of true manhood and unite that great continent for Universal 
Brotherhood. FRANCISCO M. ALBIZU, 

SaouPaulow brazil, 


THE PRESENT CRISIS IN ASIA 
G. Sherwood Eddy 

HE world war, in spite of all its catastrophes and destruction, has thrown 
7 wide the doors of opportunity before the Young Men’s Christian Asso- 

ciation. No other organization was ready and prepared to throw a 
force of men with the troops in the field and in the prisons, hospitals and con- 
centration camps to meet the physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual needs 
of these men in the war. A force of secretaries was 
immediately sent to the front with the Indian troops in 
France, with the army in Mesopotamia and with the 
forces in Egypt. The British government telegraphed 
offering to hand over all the canteens in Eastern Africa, 
and the offer was accepted by the association. The as- 
sociation has a thousand camps among the British sol- 
diers in Egypt and in France. Even among the prisons 
of Russia, Germany and other lands unexpected oppor- 
tunities have been offered to the association, and great 
prison camps with ten thousand men in each are ac- 
cessible to our workers. Thousands of men are re- 
: sponding to the Christian message and entering the 
G. Sherwood Eddy = Christian life who had no serious thought of religion 

before the war. 

The war is even opening new doors of opportunity in Asia. We shall con- 
front a new world situation at the close of this giant struggle, and we must be 
prepared to meet it. The writer has just returned from several of the great 
spiritual battlefields of Asia. In twenty years he has never seen such signs of 
encouragement and evidences of widespread awakening as there are in India 
today. In work among students and the educated classes from five hundred 
to one thousand non-Christian students gave close attention to the Christian 
message, Bible classes were formed for inquirers and some students were bap- 
tized during the recent trip in India. Still more encuraging was the work among 
the masses and among the Christians of India. It was decided to launch a three 
years’ evangelistic campaign among the Christians of South India. In a wonderful 
way the church responded. More than ten thousand of these men went out as vol- 
unteer workers during the first special week of evangelism. They carried the 
Christian message to more than 3,800 villages. More than 300,000 heard the 
Christian message during the week. Eight thousand gave in their names as 
inquirers, while five thousand decided to enter the Christian life. Hundreds of 
these were baptized and received into the churches. 

The writer had the privilege of sharing in the movement to extend this 








THE-PRESENI CRISIS IN ASIA 19 


evangelistic campaign in the native state of Travancore. Here was the ancient 
Syrian church, founded in India about the third century or earlier, which has 
been asleep for more than a thousand years. These Christians gathered in 
five great Y. M. C. A. conventions, with an average attendance of eight thou- 
sand in each, or a total of over forty thousand. At Tiruvella the audience rose 
“until seventeen thousand were gathered together, seated on the grass under 
great palm leaf pavilions. Some had walked from five to thirty miles to attend 
these conventions for four days. Some thirty priests of various communities 
were in attendance. Several of the metropolitan bishops attended the confer- 
ences or sent ‘greetings. Five or six full time secretaries will now follow up 
the work in Travancore, organizing the Christians and leading them out in a 
great forward evangelistic campaign to reach the non-Christians of India. 
During the last tour in China the student audiences averaged over three 
thousand a night in thirteen of the great cities of the empire. The president, 





Boys’ Bible Study Group, Calcutta. 


the vice-president, the governors, the leading officials of China received us and 
rendered every assistance in the evangelistic campaign. After 4,000 years of 
preparation and 100 years of missions, the doors are thrown wide open in 
China for reaching the officials, the educators, the students and the leaders of 
a nation that numbers one-quarter of the human race. Already there are signs 
of the beginning of a Confucian revival, which indicates that this opportunity 
will not be prolonged indefinitely. We must press our advantage immediately 
in the length and breadth of the Chinese Empire. To call for retreat, retrench- 
ment, or the closing of work at a time when China is thus open would be dis- 
astrous beyond computation. Rather, we must advance. Succeeding centuries 
may not bring back the opportunity of this decade. As the former vice-presi- 
dent of the senate said after visiting these cities, “Give us a decade and we 
can have the leaders of China for Christ.” 

Never was there a time in history when so much will be demanded from 


20 THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN 


the Christian leadership of North America, Europe, by the end of this war, will 
lie exhausted. One great nation alone is left, rich in men, in money and in 
resources. To us is given the opportunity of winning these leaders of Asia 
and in a peculiar way the largest access to the officials and students is given 
to the Young Men’s Christian Association. In the whole of North America 
the Chicago Association has taken the lead in the statesman-like planning and 
rapid advance of its foreign program. City after city is already following the 
example of Chicago and endeavoring to bring its gifts abroad up to the meas- 
ure of its budget for home work. Now is the time for Chicago to lead the way 
not only in North America, but in the great advance that is called for in this 
great work abroad in the length and breadth of Asia. 





CHICAGO CENTRAL’S FOREIGN POST 


ONGKONG, comprising an island and adjacent coast on which is lo- 
H cated the city of Victoria, is a British possession, with a population of 
300,000, of which 90% are natives. Hongkong is one of the largest ports 

in the east and is a commercial center for foreign trade with China. 











Mine ug 
Res ar ES te 


Board of Directors, Hongkong Young Men’s Christian Association, with Sec- 
retaries Messer, Brockman, Elliott and McPherson. 


The Young Men’s Christian Association at Hongkong was one of the first 
associations to be established by American secretaries of the international 
committee, and its work has been recognized as having had a distinctive part 
in propagating Christianity among the Chinese, not only of Hongkong, but of 
the empire as well. 


CHICAGO CENTRAL’S FOREIGN POST 21 


Two American secretaries are in charge of the work, J. L. McPherson and 
F. M. Mohler. A small association is maintained for foreigners (English 
speaking) but the main work is for the Chinese, with a board of directors com- 
posed of native business and professional men. Six Chinese secretaries are 
on the employed staff. The association has occupied rented quarters, but is 
now erecting a modern type of building, the money for the land and build- 
ing having been given by Hongkong, supplemented by gifts from America. In 
addition to the City Association, there are three or more Student Associations 
in the colleges and schools, also a student hostel (dormitory) is owned and 
operated by the association. 

The annual report for 1915 exhibits a range and volume of activities in 
many respects the superior to many home associations. The membership to-' 
tals 1,012. There are enrolled in Bible classes, 307; enrolled in day and even- 
ing schools, 184 students; a large volume of physical work with championship 
records in the far eastern championship games and the International Associa- 
tion Hexathlon. 

As a result of the Eddy Evangelistic meetings in November, 1914, at 
which 4,500 attended on two successive evenings, 976 signed cards indicating 
their desire to study the Bible and at the end of a course of study, 175 indicated 
that they wished to follow Christ. ‘ 

The budget of $19,025 was entirely met by members’ fees and contributions 
from the public. The salaries and expenses of the American secretaries, not 
included in the budget, were provided by The Young Men’s Christian Associa- 
tion of Chicago in contrtbutions from members in the departments. This plan 
is followed by other American associations in financing the 183 secretaries 
sent out by the foreign work department of the international committee. 


Twenty-four-Hour-a-Day Club 


The Twenty-Four-Hour-A-Day Club of Central Department has been or- 
ganized for the purpose of cultivating an intelligent interest in the foreign 
work of the Young Men’s Christian Association and in securing the support 
of one secretary at Hongkong, amounting to $2,000 a year. J. L. McPherson, 
general secretary, has been assigned for 1916. 

The organization consists of a foreign work com- eee : 
mittee, of which F. A. Grow is chairman, appointed by 
the committee of management of Central Department, 
and which acts as executive committee of the club; a for- 
eign work council composed of those promoting the 
club’s activities, and the membership of the club, in- 
cluding all who contribute to the Hongkong fund. 


The privileges of the club include: 


Foreign work luncheons and other gatherings, at 
which visiting secretaries speak; printed reports from 
the foreign field, and study classes in foreign missions. 

“Hongkong Week” is observed each year during 
March, at which time the club secures cash and pledged F. A. Grow 
subscriptions from members and friends of Central De- 
partment. You are invited to have a share in meeting “China’s greatest need” 
-—the expressed opinion of a prominent Chinese official—‘Christian Men.” 











SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN SOUTH CHINA 


George E. Lerrigo 


year the event which stands out as the most important of all is without ques- 
tion the series of lectures and evangelistic meetings held by Prof. Robert- 
son and Sherwood Eddy. These meetings were made possible by reason of the 
association staff of secretaries and workers. For months preceding the cam- 
paign one of the secretaries had given his whole time to 
the work of preparation. The whole staff made this work 
its first business. Interviews were held with the civil 
governor and leading educational officials. Consent was 
gained not only for the students to attend the scientific 
lectures, but also for them to attend the meetings to be 
conducted by Mr. Eddy. A huge matshed capable of seat- 
ing 3,000 to 4,000 people was erected in the old educational 
yamen, which is in the very heart of the student center. 
Arrangements were under way for the initial lecture and 
address to be given before an audience composed of the 
leading officials and all of the school teachers. The plans 
had progressed to this point and the meetings were less 
than a week away, when a series of bombs were thrown in 
George E. Lerrigo. :},¢ city and the authorities became so alarmed that they 
forbade all large public meetings of every kind. ‘They 
were compelled to ask us to postpone our plans until a more peaceful time. 
It was impossible at so late a date to make other plans for the use of Messrs. 
Robertson’s and Eddy’s time, so the committee in charge decided to go on 
with the plans on a smaller and quieter scale. The officials showed willingness 
to co-operate with us, although they could not permit the mass meetings which 
had been originally planned. Through the influence of the governor the teach- 
ers and edtcational officials sent an invitation to Messrs. Robertson and Eddy 
to speak at the Higher Normal School. Two meetings were held, one follow- 
ing immediately after the other. The first meeting was attended by all the 
teachers of the various government schools of the city. It was evident that 
Mr. Eddy’s address made a profound impression upon them. Tears rolled 
down the faces of some of them as China’s great need was presented. At the 
close of the address many crowded up to present invitations for the same ad- 
dress to be repeated at their schools. Arrangements were immediately made 
for similar meetings at the Government Law School, the First Presbyterian 
Middte Schoo! and the Canton Middle School. 


| N REVIEWING the work of the Young Men’s Christian Association for the 











Schools Open for Christian Message 


The historical importance of this event cannot be over-estimated. This 
was the first time in the history of Canton that the government schools had 
been opened for addresses of this nature delivered by representatives of the 
Christian Church. Prejudice of ancient standing was broken down and a new 
precedent was established. The lectures in the schools were followed by invi- 
tations from the Educational Association of Kwangtung Province. The ex- 
ample of the educators was followed by the editors and the newspaper guild. 


SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN SOUTH CHINA 


wo 


The result of this new point of contact has been felt all through the work of 
the year. The teachers and principal of the Higher Normal School of the 
province have shown an openness to co-operate with the association never 
before evinced. Asa result of this new relationship an invitation was extended 
to Mr. Wilbur, the student secretary, asking him to take up the work of 
training the students in athletics. The meetings in the government schools 
were supplemented by the meetings held in the church at the Canton Hos- 
pital. At these later meetings it was possible also to present Christ as the 
remedy for China’s need, and men were asked to make decision for the Chris- 
tian life, or for enrollment in a Bible class. The total number of cards signed 
was 584. The number actually entering Bible classes was 284. Of those 
enrolled in classes 148 have already united with the church and nineteen 
others are now preparing to take that step. 

Interesting cases indicating the far-reaching influence of the work often 
come under our notice. Just as I came to Canton in 1910 association leaders 
conducted special meetings in connection with the Student Association of the 





Bible Class in the Hongkong Association 


Canton Christian College. The result was that twelve men of the senior 
class in the middle school began the Christian life. Two years ago one of 
these men, Mr. Hau Laap Fu, went to Kiungchow, the prefectural city of the 
Island of Hainan, to serve as a teacher in the government middle school there. 
During his period of service he succeeded in winning to Christ two of the 
most influential teachers of the school and six of the students. One of the 
teachers was the physical director of the school. He has since taken a deep 
interest in the development of the Christian life of the school. A change 
in officials resulted in Mr. Lau’s losing his position last China New Year’s. We 
have just been visited by Mr. Campbell, the Presbyterian missionary in charge 
of the work at Kiungchow. Mr. Campbell has reported these facts to us and 
says that the students are very anxious that Mr. Lau should return and con- 
tinue his work with them. They wish a Student Association to be organized 
in the school and would like Mr. Lau to give a portion of his time as a secre- 
tary for the association. It is possible that by using Mr. Lau as a teacher in 


24 THE- OFFICIAL. BULLETIN 


the Presbyterian school at Kiungchow we may be able to arrange a combina- 
tion which will make it possible for him to continue his work there. Cer- 
tainly the work of Mr. Lau has created an opening in this important school 
which should not be neglected. 


Many Added to the Church 


The figures show that 148 men have actually joined the church during 
the year as a result of the Robertson-Eddy campaign. This work has been 
tostered all along by the association. P. L. Wu, the religious work secretary 
of the association, has given his first attention to conserving the results of 
these meetings. The figures giving the number of men thus entering the 
church give but little real idea of what this means to Canton. As these men 
have taken this stand it usually means that other members of the family have 
taken the same step. In a recent report I referred to Kam Cheuk Hing. 
When he joined the church his grandmother, his father and mother, his wife 
and one of the men in his shop all joined with him. Another young man 
named Mr. Lei, a nephew of Admiral Lei Woh, formerly second in command 
in the Chinese navy, joined the London Mission Church. He is employed in 
connection with the construction of the new railway now being built from 
Canton to Hankow. He is away from the city for long periods of time, but 
he carries his Christianity with him and conducts services every Sunday for 
the men who are in his construction camp. ; 


Bible Study and Personal Work 


The Bible study of the association has been intimately associated with 
the evangelistic campaign to which I have already referred. In preparation 
for that campaign a normal training class, composed of fifty of the prospective 
teachers, was conducted for several weeks by S. C. Leung, our Chinese sec- 
retary. When the Bible classes were organized. for enquirers three normal 
classes were conducted, one being taught by Mr. Leung, a second by Mr. 
Fisher of the Presbyterian Mission and a third by myself. On the completion 
of this course Mr. Leung was asked to continue his work of teacher training, 
and his class continued without interruption until the breakup for the sum- 
mer holidays. 

Early in the year the religious work committee decided to make the Sun- 
day evening meetings more definite in their appeal to men to accept Christ. 
Influenced by the experience gained in connection with the evangelistic cam- 
paigns of the past few years they decided to invite men to enter Bible classes 
for the further study of the gospel. The length of the evening meeting was 
shortened to one hour, and Bible classes both for Christians and non-Chris- 
tians were organized to meet immediately at its close. These classes have 
already resulted in the conversion of a number of men. 

The emphasis laid upon the importance of personal work during the spe- 
cial meetings of Mr. Eddy has had a great influence on many of the association 
men. This has recently resulted in the formation of personal work groups 
within the association. A group of five leaders has been organized,-and each 
of these men have in turn organized other groups of from three to five. The 
hope is to stimulate each member of these groups to do personal work him- 
self and to become a leader of a personal work group. The aim is to spread 
the movement throughout the association and out into the various churches. 


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